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"Let's go!"

Arthur took out the greatsword, held Melina to his side, and walked towards the door of the corridor together.

The corridor was only a few dozen meters long, and in just a few moments he reached the end of the door. Arthur pressed the giant sword against the door and pushed it open with force.

With a creaking sound, the door that had not been opened for at least hundreds of years was pushed open from the outside. Dust inside the door flew up instantly, but after Arthur waved his hand heavily, all the dust was dispersed.

Inside the door, a complex magic circle was carved on the ground. Rays of flowing golden light formed a loop on the lines of the magic circle, flowing towards the holy grail embedded in the ground in the center.

Seeing this, Arthur and Melina looked at each other and walked towards the Holy Grail in the center together. Where they walked, the golden light flowing on the ground magic circle seemed to be enhanced, flashing as if cheering.

The holy grail inlaid in the center has intricate patterns and is a thick sandy gold color. It looks more like a trophy than a wine glass.

But the most important thing is the liquid in the Holy Grail. The liquid is bright red, like blood, but it exudes the aroma of wine.

Perhaps this also confirms the original purpose of the Holy Grail - to collect the blood shed by the suffering Jesus, but there is also a saying that red wine symbolizes the blood of Jesus, which is why this situation appears.

"The Holy Grail has magical powers. Because of it, I have been favored by the Lord and have become the Lord's messenger walking on earth." Arthur suddenly repeated the engravings on the wall.

"Jesus took this cup and told his disciples to drink the red wine in it, which symbolized his blood, thereby establishing the Memorial of His Passion." At the same time, he also said another sentence that was unrelated to it.

After hearing these two sentences, Melina suddenly realized something: "Could it be that if I drink the liquid in here, I can gain divine power?!!"

"That should be it." Arthur suddenly raised the giant sword in his hand and pointed the tip of the sword at the base of the Holy Grail. "Since you want to establish the Knights of the Holy Light, you naturally need to possess divine power."

"In this case, the Holy Grail cannot remain here any longer."

"Wait." Melina suddenly thought of a question, "The Holy Grail is an object that suppresses darkness. If we take it away, what should we do with those zombies?"

"If you want to obtain divine power, it's impossible to do so without any cost."

After saying this, Arthur no longer hesitated and thrust his sword straight forward.

Chapter 304: The Shattering of the Seal

"Click~"

With a slight sound, the base where the Holy Grail was embedded was cut open by a sword as expected. Seeing this, Melina hurried forward and held the Holy Grail with her hands to prevent the liquid inside from spilling out.

The bright red liquid was not bloody or pungent, but instead strangely gave off the mellow aroma of wine.

Melina's throat rolled when she smelled the scent. For some reason, she had the urge to drink it all in one gulp.

But in an instant Melina woke up from this unusual state and hurriedly pulled the Holy Grail out of the base.

"呲~"

A sound like a balloon leaking air was heard, but when listening carefully, nothing was heard. It was just that the magic circle on the ground suddenly shattered and cracked, and the base where the Holy Grail was embedded was turned into powder.

The thick golden sand light suddenly turned into a gauze-like golden sand thread, swirling and rising along with the air, and merged into the Holy Grail in Melina's hand.

"There's no need to destroy the evidence."

Looking at the base that had been turned into powder and the broken magic circle, Arthur retracted his giant sword and said lightly.

And there was no change in the sound after the Holy Grail was taken away, so what he said later would be true? Anyway, no one could confirm it.

Besides, this is a win-win situation, Lucia can obtain the coveted divine power, and their possibility of fighting back to Romania will increase.

The only hidden danger is the sealed darkness, but Lucia is a great country and can definitely solve it on its own.

"Let me see if I missed anything."

Looking at the shattered room, Arthur began to grope along the wall. After about three times, when he was sure that there was nothing, Arthur left with Melina and climbed the spiral staircase along the corridor.

After a while, the two people who returned to the upper space brought the people who were resting back to their senses.

"You found it down there...wait, that's the Holy Grail in your hand?"

Shaq, who was closest to the entrance of the stone platform, was about to ask Arthur something, but before he could finish his words, he exclaimed because of the Holy Grail in Melina's hand!

No one was more shocked than him. He even figured out the word "Holy Grail", but he didn't expect that the Holy Grail was right underneath.

But doesn't the Holy Grail suppress the darkness underground? Why did they take it out? If the Holy Grail was taken away, does that mean the darkness has been released!

"Yes, this is the Holy Grail..."

Arthur's sudden words made Shaq swallow the question that was stuck in his throat.

"It's already too late for the Holy Grail..." Arthur's tone was not very good, and he seemed to be suppressing the emotions in his heart.

Hearing this, Shaq's heart trembled. One step late? What does that mean?

"What do you mean by a step late?!" Shaq's pupils were trembling and his voice was shaking a little.

"You know what I mean. I used to think it was not too late. As long as we inject power into the magic circle, we can seal the darkness again, but..."

Arthur's words were not loud, but they were loud enough for everyone in the cave to hear. Shak's face turned pale with disbelief. He had already guessed what Arthur would say next, but he still had a glimmer of hope. Maybe... it was not what he thought?

"We are too late. The magic circle has been broken. The seal... has lost its effect!"

Boom - this news like a bolt from the blue swept through everyone in the cave. They all knew the contents written on the cave wall through Shak. They thought there was still hope for success, but they didn't expect to lose so completely!

The magic circle that sealed the darkness has been broken. Does this mean that the darkness under the ground has already escaped?

"But we found this!" Arthur suddenly wiped away the gloom on his face, reached out and took the Holy Grail held in Melina's hands, and showed it to everyone.

"This is the holy grail with magical powers, the Holy Grail! Through it, mortals can gain divine power and fight against the spreading darkness!"

"If you think the power of the Holy Grail is too small, this is Lucia! A bear from the Far North, what can a mere zombie do to you?"

Arthur was like standing on a high podium, giving an inspiring speech, which boosted everyone's confidence!

"Now, let's leave here for a while. Even though you have recovered some of your strength, you still haven't had a drop of water or a grain of rice to eat."

"The power of the Holy Grail cannot be fully understood here. Let's leave here first. Even if the seal has already been broken, this is no excuse to fall into despair!"

"What can we do about just a few zombies?"

Melina stood with her hands behind her, not saying a word.

After hearing these words, everyone who was resting hurriedly got up from the ground. Indeed, zombies were nothing to be afraid of in front of the country. So what even if the seal was gone?

They are a fighting nation from the Far North, how could they lose confidence because of such trivial matters!

Seeing that everyone's attention had shifted away from the broken seal, Arthur raised his arms: "Hurrah!"

“Hurrah!!!!”

"Now, let's get out of here!"

………………

At the same time, in abandoned underground mines that no one knows about, at the bottom of sewer sewage pipes, and in ancient tombs buried deep in the earth.

Several spider-web-like cracks suddenly appeared, and the breath from the dark abyss emerged.

This time it was no longer black gas that was invisible to the naked eye, but it was like real black smoke.

Black smoke mixed with concentrated black gas particles merged into the nearest corpse.

The rotten corpse resurrected as a zombie, and the corpse with only bones left made two clicks, and the broken bones were pieced together to turn into an undead skeleton.

Two black and red flames ignited in the empty eye sockets of the skull, and even the toothless skull grew sharp teeth that seemed to be stronger than the teeth in life.

On the mountain where the magic circle cave was located, in an inconspicuous cave, a zombie with a pile of pale bones behind him suddenly froze.

He was the first zombie to wake up, and the one who scratched Shaq's father. He should have died after Shaq stabbed him in the head with a dagger, but for some reason he came back to life.

When he survived, he was extremely weak and could only return to the original place and continue to eat the wild boar he had not finished eating to restore his strength.

But the wild boar disappeared. With his damaged brain, he was unable to figure out why his food disappeared. He could only look for new food, new blood.

Fortunately, there are quite a few animals on this mountain. To this day, he has no idea how many animals he has eaten and how much vitality he has absorbed. His strength has increased.

If he meets those two people again, he will definitely be able to kill them!

As he thought so, even his thinking ability returned to the level of a child.

But just as he was counting how many bones he had in his collection, an attraction suddenly appeared, which made the corpse more excited than blood.

Although his heart had long stopped beating and his blood had long dried up, he could still feel the desire from the bottom of his heart.

Following this impulse that attracted him, he left his cave and headed towards what he felt in his heart, walking along the steep mountain wall and through the dark cave until...

He saw a bottomless crack and sticky, solid black smoke filled the space, like a wonderland in the world of corpses!

He... stepped into it.

“Hiss, hiss, hiss~”

The lungs that had long been shattered and lost were regenerating, the muscles and skin on the face were splitting and healing, and even the festering scalp was healing itself.

"Ahem...I..."

His vocal cords, which had long been eaten away by insects in the damp underground, began to recover, and he vibrated his vocal cords to make a hoarse sound.

Hair as pale as a corpse began to grow, and dense hair appeared at the roots, growing long until it reached the waist.

The muscles began to swell and grow, and even the skin began to recover, but the recovered skin was bluish-white in color, with black tattoos covering it.

Chapter 305: Corpse King and Hibernation

The black tattoos were like formation runes, with marks engraved all over his body, but these formation runes had no intention of suppressing him at all. Instead, they were absorbing the black air from the ground!

A bloody mark emerged from the forehead, spread to the tip of the nose and faded away. The entire eye socket was pitch black, with no distinction between the white of the eye and the eyeball, and only a bloody red light flickered in it.

"I am... the King of Corpses?" A mouth full of sharp teeth flashed a cold white light, and a scarlet tongue licked its own fangs.

"I am... the Corpse King!"

The Corpse King's voice was shocked, and all doubts disappeared. He was the Corpse King, and this was an irrefutable fact!

"Haha, I didn't expect that I would be resurrected in this form." The Corpse King felt his new body and gently waved his dark claws, leaving deep marks on the wall of the cave.

"This time, I won't make the same mistake again!"

"But I don't understand the world today at all... Now is not the time to act recklessly!"

The Corpse King restrained his wanton and arrogant bloody smile, hid his sharp teeth under his pale lips, and sat cross-legged on the ground.

His resurrection meant that the seal had been broken, and those zombies and ghouls must have appeared in the world, but now was not the time to let the world panic.

The world is very delicate, and if you put in a little effort, there will be some annoying guys helping the world deal with you.

While absorbing the black air from the ground, the Corpse King sensed through the black air how many zombies there were in the world!

"Hmm? Interesting. There are actually mutated zombies, drowned zombies? That's great. Is it because the resentment before drowning merged with the black energy that they became a new type of zombie?"

"Or is it because the hatred of being killed combined with water, with a little catalysis from the black gas?"

All zombies in the world have black air in their bodies. It is because of the stimulation of the black air that the dead bodies can be brought back to life. The only difference is the amount of black air in the body.

"what is this?"

The corpse king, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, showed a curious expression on his face: "Is it a human? Is it a corpse? What is this thing?"

In the perception of the Corpse King, there are several places with these strange creatures. They don't look like corpses that are being transformed after being bitten by zombies, but more like living people infected by black air.

But how is this possible? Black Qi cannot infect living people unless they accept it. But they cannot see or touch black Qi. Could it be that this is a carrier that has been fused with black Qi?

"Is this... injecting zombie gene cells infected with black energy into my body? Haha, humans are really strange creatures."

The Corpse King sneered disdainfully, it was amazing that these humans could come up with such a fantastic idea.

"Why is it only this little? Something is wrong..."

Under the perception of the black air, the Corpse King only sensed the zombies in a very small range, which meant that the number of zombies was not large at all, but this did not match the sign of his resurrection at all.

Not to mention an entire country, but it is impossible for zombies to appear only in such a small area!

"There is a problem, there is definitely a problem!"

The Corpse King grinned from the corners of his mouth to his ears, and the bloodshot veins clinging to his sharp fangs made him look even more ferocious, with a red light in his eyes as if he wanted to choose someone to devour.

"Come back! Hide!"

"Before I understand the current situation of the world, all of you should lie dormant, just like insects in the ground, hiding in the soil without eating or moving!"

Through the black air in the bodies of the zombies, the Corpse King is in the place where the black air is densest and issues his orders!

Anyone who has black energy in his body cannot resist the orders of the Corpse King. This level of rank cannot be crossed!

Of course, the Corpse King ignored those places where there were neither corpses nor humans. If he controlled them, humans would definitely become suspicious, which would be detrimental to his dormancy.